Brassiere



April 7, 1925. 1,532,250

E. A. LINDEMANN BRAssIERE 4 Filed Oct. 28. '1921 INVENTOR Emily A. Zindemamz Patented Apr. 7, 1925.

UNITED STATES.

EMILY A. nrnnniviann, orcnnw YORK, N; Y.

BRASSIERE.

Application filedOctober 2a, 1921. Serial No. 511,024."

To all whom it mzu concern Be it known that I, EMILY A. LINDE- MANN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city, county, and State of New York. have invented certain newand useful Improvements in a Brassiere, of which the following is a specification.

Among the principal objects which the present invention has in view are: To maintain agarment of the character mentioned adjusted as in service without auxiliary or visible supports; to prevent wrinkling or creasing of the garment in service; and to accommodate the garment to the stresses of usual wear.

Drawings: Figure 1 is a picto-ral view of a brassiere constructed and arranged in accordance with the present invention, disposed on a human figure.

Figure 2 is a back view of the same figure and brassiere.

Figure 3 is a view on enlarged scale of the brassiere herein disclosed, the same be ing spread or opened up lengthwise.

F igure 4 is a similar view showing the same in its closed position.

Description: The principal commercial advantage of garments constructed as herein disclosed is the fact of maintaining the front of the brassiere in its normal position on the body of the wearer without the aid of shoulder straps, heretofore employed, thus permitting the use of dresses or garments constructed without shoulder straps. To this end the front panel 9 is gathered at the lateral vertical edges thereof and is attached to the stay piece 10 on the one side, and to the fastening strip 11 on the opposite side. The vertical width of the panel 9 is sufficient to provide about the front median section thereof, a surplus of material or fulled section, such indicated by the ruuueral 12 in Figures 1 and 8 of the drawings.

Adjacent the lower edge of the panel 9 is a reinforcing wear pad 13. The pad 13 may be constructed of any suitable material, the oliice of the said pad being to protect the panel 9 from abrasion incident to the rubbing on the fastening faces of the corset. Attached to the lower edge of the said pad is a holding device let having an eyelet buckle 15 for engaging one of the fasteners of the corset over which the brassiere is worn.

As seen best in Figures and 4 of the drawings the upper edge of the panel 9 is contracted slightly so that the distance be tween the upper ends of the stay piece 10 and fastening strip 11 is slightly less than the distance between the said stay piece and fastening strip at the center thereof, or in other words, the panel 9 is shaped to the bust of the wearer.

The stay piece is formed of two inelastic end sections 10 and 16 and a middle'elastic portion consisting of elastic sections 17 and 18, the middle portion being secured to the end sections along lines converging upwardly and downwardly respectively, from an intermediate portion of said back part.

The sections 17 and 18 are both shaped to provide fanshaped portions 20, the elongated edges of the said portions in both sections being adjacent. The portions 20 in both elastic sections are contracted toward the upper and lower edges of the back formed by the stay pieces 10 and 16, to conform with the shape of the said stay pieces and the spaces therebetween, or be tween the edges 21-21 and 22-22 at the upper and lower portions of the said stay pieces, respectively.

The elastic section 18 differs from the elastic section 17 principally in that at the lower edge thereof a second flared section 22, is formed to conform with the shape of the stay pieces 10 and 16.

The result of the shapes imparted to the stay pieces 10 and 16 at their adjacent edges and the elastic sections 17 and 18 secured thereto and between the said pieces, is that at the extreme upper edge of the back formed by the stay pieces 10 and 16 a rela tively short elastic section is provided between the edges 21 and 21 of the opposite stay pieces. A similar short section is formed between the edges 22 and 22 of the said stay pieces, while the elastic portions 20 are flaredtoward the space 19. The result in the garment is that the shorter length elastic areas between the edges 21-21 and 22 -22 places a relatively greater tension on the panel 9 over areas in line with the said short ela'stic'sections which correspond with the portion 'of the panel'9 above the breasts of the wearer on the one hand, and with the waist-line of the wearer below the breasts, while the flared portions 20 exert a relatively slight pressure on the middle section of the panel 9 which is in line with the fullness of the bust.

The lessening of the tension at the lower edge of the panel 9 and brassiere construction due to the flaring of the section 23, permits the lower edge of the brassiere to rest easy and to be retained upon the corset at the point where the hips and shape of the figure begins to swell, thus avoiding the tendency which so many garments of this character have, to ride on the figure of the wearer.

By providing the fulled portion 12, the usual pulling of: the brassiere from off the top of the bust when the wearer leans back,

is avoided, this fullness yielding sufiiciently to compensate for the movement to the body referred to.

Claims:

1. A- brassiere comprising an Hinelastic front portion and aback portion, said back portion being formed of inelastic end sections and a middle section being secured to the end sections along lines converging upwardly and downwardly respectively, from the intermediate portion of said back portion.

2. A brassiere comprising an inelastic, bust supporting front portion, a reduced back portion comprising inelastic end sections and a .middle elastic section, said middle section being secured to said end sections along lines converging upwardly and downwa dly respectively, from an intermediate portion of said back portion, and means for attaching said back portion to the ends of said front portion.

EMILY. A. LINDEMANN. 

